Narrative Mass Combat: Part 3 – Narrating a Scene
Narrative Combat. Natural Language and Playing out a Scene. Step 1: Pick a Style. The first place to get a style is to absorb the style of my favorite author.…
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Narrative Mass Combat: Part 2 – Applying Groupings and using Economies of Defense
This post is for GMs who want to tackle mass combat or scale the game at the level of armies and states. Strategikon and the Art of War has rules…
Read more →Narrative Mass Combat: Part 1 – Groupings and Leadership
3 part post about Narrative Mass Combat. This helps in running Mass Combat since it gives some basic principles to consider. I will give more specific examples and show how…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades – Season 02, Episode 06 – Betreyal
Thanks +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham, +Thunder Clonch , and +Il Pella for playing. The team was planning an attack, the problems and challenges were plenty the closest target was Nicomedia (Izmit), assailable by sea and land…
Read more →Dwarven Loadouts, Encounters, and Mass Combat Encounter
My dwarves are a bit shorter, but wider in proportions compared to humans. So they even out a bit but clothing and armor that has a “dwarven” descriptor cannot be…
Read more →GURPS Low Tech Notes: Galleys, Naval Encounters,
Galleys Galleys are long narrow oared boats, sometimes with sails. They were used from BCE to the 1500CE. They were measured in total number of oars, and rarely by their…
Read more →GURPS Mass Combat Notes: Logistics and Lances
Logistics have been separated in the cost of forces in GURPS mass combat. Since MC already simplified much of the tactical elements, Logistics because its own interesting and fun game.…
Read more →GURPS Notes: Assorted Notes and a Simple exercise of Attrition
GURPS Mass Combat needs practice and rehearsals for the GM to get it right and so that the players also get the feel of the system. Much like GURPS combat,…
Read more →GURPS Mass Combat Notes: Mass Combat in Roll20
These are my notes in correction of the mass combat I ran recently. I hope to update this when new data becomes available. This system shows my bias as a…
Read more →Mass Combat Templates with load Outs
Making a bunch of templates for this long project I had for years. Basically its GURPS Low Tech Lite, for my own uses. So basically have a GURPS lite with…
Read more →Many Small Topics
Summary Secret Rolls, and Trust Issues Recruitment for Mass Combat Just learned Alphabetical Index tools Digest Sized GML Secret Rolls and Trust Issues With smartphones I realized, i can ask…
Read more →Random Lord Generator and Empires before Alexander
The Random Lord Generator is meant to allow for the quick, simple, and detached creation of NPC lords as allies, patrons, or adversaries. They are also designed in mind of…
Read more →Sacred Oaths
The humble Serf, as well as Husbands and Wives, to entrepreneurial Peasant and Yeomen, to loyal Retainers and Vassals, the Knights, Lords, Dukes and Princes… all these people have one…
Read more →War Campaign musing
I’ve joined Arm Chair Generals forums to work through some of my campaign problems. One of them, I’m stuck on is military readiness. Using GURPS mass combat, plotting the precise…
Read more →Wold Building Research Mind Dump
I broke my own home brew rules. I’ve gone back to the basics and tried again. This time a little bit more detailed. As I’ve always got game in the…
Read more →GURPS Mass Combat – Fief Manpower tables
Manpower is produced by a warlord’s fief or province. They don’t have a cost to raise because these are duties peasants and nobles owe the master of that realm. This…
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